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Profile
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| | Year: | 2018
| | First: | Jan
| | Last: | Wall
| | Home: | Lincoln
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From infancy, Jan loved baseball. He saw his first game when he was three years old and when he got home that day, he practiced sliding on the linoleum for hours! At Lincoln Northeast he lettered three years and lead the Rockets to the state tourney. During his career he struck out 121 batters and had an ERA of 0.88. Summers found him pitching for the Lincoln Optimists. He pitched a no hitter against Hastings, the #1 team in the state and then was selected for his baseball and basketball talents as the Nebraska Athlete of the Year. He turned down professional offers and chose to pitch for Nebraska. As a highlight he won three games in two days against Oklahoma. Everyone wanted him to pitch for them in the summer. Wahoo, Genoa, Weston, Ogallala, and North Platte were teams who sought him. He starred for Sturgis in the Basin League. He went on and pitched in the national semi pro tourney in Wichita. A serious accident slowed him down but major league scouts still wanted him. He signed with the New York Mets but could not play due to medical reasons. The “Stroker” certainly belongs in the Nebraska Baseball Hall of Fame! |
